The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) has ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to reinstate over 5,000 fired employees for 45 days, citing reasonable grounds that the agency acted illegally in terminating them.
The order follows a request from the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC), which is investigating the mass firings of probationary federal employees since Feb. 13. The Trump administration has dismissed tens of thousands of such employees across federal agencies as part of efforts to reduce the government workforce.
Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger urged all agencies to rescind wrongful terminations, stating that USDA relied on Office of Personnel Management (OPM) guidance rather than evaluating individual employee performance.
A federal judge in San Francisco has also ruled that these mass firings likely violated multiple laws, while OPM revised its January memo, clarifying that it did not direct agencies to fire employees.
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